Around 2017-2018, there used to be a huge circlejerk online about how Fortnite was the dumbest thing ever, to the point where “Fortnite bad, Minecraft good” was part of the infamous Keanu Chungus 100 meme. Why did it get so much hate, and why did it stop?
I played Fortnite when it was a tower defense coop game. It was okay, nothing special. Then PUBG came out and it gained some popularity. Fortnite quickly copied this and went free to play. In a short amount of time, a game I kind of liked became overrun by children that were screaming into the microphone the entire game.
That was when I stopped paying attention to Fortnite at all. AFAIK, the hate never stopped.
I loved the TD version the moment it was announced. The devs tried to tell the community that the battle royale mode was “just an after-hours project” and they wouldn’t abandon the Save the World mode. Of course, they did.
That sucks. I’m just now learning that something other than the BR mode once existed. I would have been totally on board for a TD version of the game. Now that it’s all BR, I’m just -meh-.